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Our book The Science and Art of Dreaming is available at routledge.com/The-Science-an…. From psychology to art & surrealism; including Freud, empathy, lucid dreams, & @DrLockheart’s paintings of dreams. @designdotgold @SwanseaUni @UWTSD @SwanseaPsych @routledgebooks @DreamScholars

The painting of the dream told to us for World Sleep Day @NaPScardiff1 @cardiffuni is now on our website, with the dream narrative & comments on the painting by @Prof_Lockheart @UWTSD. Thanks to the dream sharer & audience & hosts for a great event. dreamsid.com/gallery-of-dre…

My (very positive) review of Karen van Kampen’s The Brain Never Sleeps (Simon and Schuster, March 2026) is now on our website and has been sent to Dream Time, magazine of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, for publishing in the Spring edition. Excerpt of review here, link to whole review at bottom of post. ‘This is a wonderful, captivating, wide-ranging and very original book. It is a clear description of all aspects of research into dreaming and the experience of dreams. It ranges from what is happening in the brain when we dream, to dream content, types of dreams, dream analysis, nightmares, psychoanalysis, disorders of sleep and dreaming, and the technology now being used to alter our dreams. And the debates on whether dreaming has a function, and how we can even experiment to test these theories, are also explained well.’ @simonschuster dreamsid.com/science-posts-…

Wonderful experts’ discussion on @BBCRadio4 #withinourtime of how Dada started in Zurich, the many types of creativity within it, from poetry to collage to masks, how it spread to other cities, and how after about 8 years its informality & anarchic spirit gave way/birth to surrealism. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Video of my talk at World Sleep Day 2025 @NaPScardiff1 @cardiffuni on why do we dream, followed by a complete discussion of an attendee’s dream with simultaneous painting of the dream by @Prof_Lockheart. Details of the 2026 event will be uploaded soon. youtube.com/watch?v=eUdtcg…

#Dreaming 😴 Cast into Neath exhibition - Those of you around South Wales on 28th March 2026, 2-4pm, please come to the @queenstneath for a @DreamsID performance. Sign up for free tickets eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984280517443

Thanking everyone @NaPSCardiff1 @CardiffUni for World Sleep Day today, with lots of activities and presentations, and finishing with our Dream Salon, thanks to the dream sharer and audience for discussion, & with dream painted by @Prof_Lockheart.

Details of our next dream discussion & artwork events, 13th March @CardiffUni, 28th March in Neath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, & 14th June in Oregon 🇺🇸 are on our website dreamsid.com/future-events.….

Lots of activities & talks for World Sleep Day, Friday 13th March @CardiffUni @NaPScardiff1, including me on ‘Why do we dream and how does the brain produce dreams?’ followed by @DreamsID workshop discussing an attendee’s dream while we see it painted live by artist @Prof_Lockheart. Schedule in tweet below.

Wonderful evening at very in-bloom @FreudMusLondon with talks by @rawsin_ Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson on surreal secrets of the psyche: the creative Zeitgeist of psychoanalysis, film and the avant-garde.

RT @Mark_Blagrove: The @APA’s journal Dreaming has a special issue on the latest research into lucid dreaming, & including lucid nightmares…

Wonderful and enlightening tour this weekend @FreudMusLondon with many first hand details of the house when it was home to Sigmund and Anna Freud, including why Freud was never shown Dalí’s drawing of him, the consulting room with the original couch, visits by Marilyn Monroe to Anna, and the lift installed for Sigmund.

Highly recommended article by @ClareWilsonMed in @theipaper on experimental altering of dream content so as to increase waking life creativity. Includes link to the groundbreaking experiment report in @NeuroConsc & interview with lead author sleep 😴 & dreaming 💭 scientist Karen Konkoly @NorthwesternU. @kap101

Fascinating paper in @NeuroConsc, experimentally altering dreams by sound stimulation during sleep 😴 leads to creative problem solving 💡 after waking. Researchers Karen Konkoly, Ken Paller & team @NorthwesternU. @kap101 @NeuroConsc academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…

Our paper ‘Ratings of accuracy and insight following dream interpretation by ChatGPT’ is online in the International Journal of Dream Research. The first quantitative assessment of the extent to which AI has this capability, includes full details of the protocol and questionnaire so other teams can utilise the method. journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoD…

Our paper ‘Ratings of accuracy and insight following dream interpretation by ChatGPT’ is now online in the International Journal of Dream Research. @DreamScholars @DreamsID journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoD…

@anubhabdaserrr @DreamScholars Thank you! We are doing a speeded-up 7 minute film of what was a 80 minute painting process, it will be on our YouTube channel soon. Here’s a previous one youtu.be/R_7FvpqGcmQ?si… 👍

@dreamsid @DreamScholars Beautiful artwork <3

Our final artwork of 2025, ready to send to the dreamer👇. Dream was of a workplace Xmas dinner🎄🎅🏻, told at our dream salon at Schallaburg Castle & Museum, Austria. The dream & comments on the painting’s composition are on our website dreamsid.com/gallery-of-dre…. See you in 2026🎆!

Dream engineering symposium. Using technology to alter sleep and dreaming to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions. 10-11th January at MIT. dxe.framer.website

Just submitted our first abstract for the 43rd annual IASD @DreamScholars conference in Oregon in June. On the psychologist & philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his explanations for dreaming. @Prof_Lockheart